zSpace Seed: A Divergent Reality

Chapter 5: Broken History

Author's Note: This story will be heavy exposition and not much dialogue. It's my back story of the hidden history of the 1990's that forced Khan and his Augment followers to be exiled from Earth. This is not meant to create controversy nor perpetuate conspiracy theories of the past or present, but I took some creative extrapolation of current and past United Nations' policies and programs.

Chapter note: This is a big chapter.

- - Briefing room –

Having been released from the medical bay, both Amin and Khan, still under guard were seated around one of the many briefing rooms afforded to a Starbase. After given a crash course in the operation of the PADD, Khan finished transcribing his testimony on what happened prior to his forced exile.

He handed it to Lt McGivers, "Here you go, Lt McGivers…or may I call you Marla?" he looked at her.

"No problem, Khan, thank you for the testimony here on the PADD. I'm sure it will help your case." She smiled.

"It's what I know, Marla. The powers at the time conspired to keep me quiet. They couldn't kill me without getting more blood on their hands, but at the same time, they had no way of getting at me."

"It makes sense. Those in power always seek to control those who they can't," she agreed.

McGivers reviewed the information on the PADD and said, "I'm going to take this to the Admiral and Captain. I'm sure they'll find this very interesting. On my way, I am authorized to take you on a tour around the Starbase to see what the 23rd century looks like for you and Ms. Amin."

"That would be very nice, Marla, thank you," Khan replied.

Amin looked over and said, "Yes, it would. I'd like a chance to stretch my legs after so much laying around."

With that, McGivers took Khan and Amin for their promised tour. Prior to that, she dropped off the PADD with Admiral Komack and Captain Kirk for reading.

- Testimony -

Up until this point, project Chrysalis had succeeded unbeknownst to the United Nations since its inception in 1974. The Augmented humans that came out of the program had silently positioned themselves around the world in various governmental positions in all countries. Some had become military officers, some had become business leaders, and some had become normal everyday citizens in their respective countries, but for the most part, each had attained positions of influence within their respective country. Positioned to effect change as the leaders of Chrysalis had envisioned.

During the numerous Middle East wars of the late '80's and '90's, many Augments seized power in these countries due to vacuums caused by assassinations, elections and direct replacement of key political figures. Due to some quick openings in the countries of India and Pakistan, several Augments were able to gain influential positions in national government. Towards the end of the 1980's, Augments had successfully infiltrated themselves into the Chinese government, especially in the Chinese communist party. Portraying faux loyalty to the party allowed them to position themselves to make the key changes coming in the next few years in the region. In other countries, local elections were swayed by the arrival of Augment newcomers to those countries' local elections. Promising to eradicate disease and rebuild crumbling infrastructure, the people followed the persuasive Augments. Once elected or positioned in key government areas, the Augments using their superior intelligence and stamina devised small and large changes to bring about that change. A small change of a rule here, a reduced government tax rate there to allowed the desired changes to take affect without upsetting the entire government. Policies and laws were relaxed, taxes lowered to encourage citizen choice and free market flexibility. The resulting relaxed rules in the countries enabled the populations to find ways on their own to better themselves. Even though many of these countries were totalitarian in nature, the Augments' political and government positions encouraged and enabled changes in these countries to open up their markets and bring in foreign business investments from Europe and the United States. Relations between China, Europe and the United States warmed up in response to the opening of markets for Western businesses in the beginning years. Augments occupying key governmental and businesses within both the U.S. and Europe helped facilitate this change. Despite opposing ideologies between the East and the West, trade increased and more people in Asia saw a significant rise in their standard of living and American consumers bought cheaper products.

In the next few years, Khan, in addition with his Augment partners in the neighboring Asian countries, worked to bring peaceful order to the political chaos in the region. Historically, the Asian continent was plagued with small brush wars between nations. Crafting a plan to stabilize the region, he encouraged open dialogue between the numerous nations, proposing initially a loose knit trading alliance in order to maximize the distribution of hard to find goods, feed his people and consolidate industries in Asia. Using his Augment brothers and sisters in neighboring countries, they collaborated in bringing together ancient rivals to share business investments, foster trade between them work together to solve the population problem of the region. Focusing on trade, Khan reasoned that together the Asian nations would benefit from the institution of a trade alliance among them. This trade alliance over the next couple of years worked to bring in foreign investment, foreign capital and foreign businesses to the region. This loose trade alliance started to see big improvements in the population's living conditions and decreases in poverty at faster than normal rates predicted in UN models. Khan and his Augment brethren were succeeding where European colonial masters had failed years before. The obvious benefit of this increased economic output and capital reduced poverty rate and dependency on various UN aid agencies located throughout Asia. The continued prosperity threatened the control that was exerted through the UN by the secret oligarchs of the world. The UN's original goal was the creation of a one world government since its creation at end of World War II. One of the UN's unstated goals was to enable more poverty through the redistribution of wealth to the poverty stricken countries and use it as control methods to run those national governments. Since the Augments took over and started implementing more capitalist-market based economies, reliance on these UN aid organizations was waning. Since these UN aid agencies were fronts for these oligarchs, manipulation and control of local national governments through these agencies was slipping away. No longer was a nation dependent on the UN for food, water or even internal security. Nations were taking charge of their destiny's without UN interference. The oligarch-ran UN was losing its influence in the region, and it did not like losing. Ever since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, these oligarchs, cloaked in shadow to the world populace, used the UN as a carving tool to re-shape the world in their own vision. As a precursor to a one world government or 'New World Order,' the UN and its various agencies, were the tools of these oligarchs to mold the world population in preparation for its eventual coming. These oligarch through proxy agents in the form of intelligence agencies, businesses and even government officials created or sparked the many 'wars of liberation' from 1945 to the early 1990's. These wars were used to to establish puppet governments or overthrow anti-UN leaning governments to construct this one world government plan. In the industrialized nations of the West, the UN and its proxy agents bought off politicians and governmental bureaucrats, at all federal, state and local levels to adopt pro-UN policies, such as gun control and 'environmentally' responsible or sustainable housing standards. Many of these worldwide polices were set up to redistribute of wealth from richer countries (e.g., the U.S.) to the poorer countries of world (the nations of Africa). The UN and its shadow masters were trying to implement a socialist type of world government that would supersede national sovereignty on Earth.

The pro-capitalist agenda pushed by the Augment leaders of Asia stymied the progress of these UN globalization efforts. Since the Asian people were less willing to give up their earned income to some UN bureaucrat, they were less inclined to elect or put in power pro UN national leaders. Many of the Asian countries demanded the removal of the UN agencies from their countries. Augment leaders and bureaucrats were more than happy to oblige their citizenry to this end. As more countries started seeing the benefit of capitalism and its positive effect on poverty, the influence of these socialist leaning oligarchs waned in Asia. The changes brought about by many of the Augments in power in other Asian countries continued to reduce UN influence in the region. Humans in those countries were looking for better lives and welcomed the message of a better future with these new leaders. During this time, Augment leaders and persons among the population hid their true nature as to not scare or strain their relationship with their populations. Among these leaders, Khan Noonian Singh, came to power by inserting himself as a trusted adviser to the current head of the Indian government. During a scandal that racked the Indian government, the elected was forced to step down and special elections were held that allowed Khan to run against a weak opposition opponent. Since Khan represented the current government, he was elected due to his association with the last government. His 'new order' detailed how India could be a strong nation of equals by modernizing the country's infrastructure and society. His new ideas to smooth out the ingrained caste system were at first met with resistance, but he soon became the 'hero' of the common people and through his force of will was able to push through many laws eliminating the caste system. Rather than risk riots and more discord, the Indian government officials at all levels went along with Khan to bring about such radical change to the country. Also, he understood that to bring India into the 20th and 21st centuries required significant modernization of societal norms and allowed all segments of the population to take part in the new economic progress. As these changes were being implemented, Indian politicians decided to not disrupt this positive change.

On a global scale, India, Pakistan both decided to vote to leave the UN due to the many injustices experienced by them over the last decades following the Second World War. This major upheaval in world politics impacted the UN membership status of the other Asia countries in the region. With the withdrawal of these two countries, history was made when all UN agencies were expelled. Setting out on their own, both countries set up a loose political and trade alliance that eventually became the East Asia Union or EAU. As these countries left the UN, it highlighted the ineffectiveness of UN world governance. Overtures and high minded speeches were made from the UN Security Council, but not acted upon. With a vote, by both the United States and United Kingdom, these countries vetoed any type of overt aggressive action against India and Pakistan. This initial withdrawal created a domino effect for many other Asian countries to leave the UN, especially China. Since China was one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, dissent with the UN was fomented by overt and covert Augment influence. As a result of this foment, China left the UN body the very next year. Seeing more economic benefit with the EAU, China sought and gained entry into the and seek entry into the nascent union. More countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Laos, Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines all agreed to join the EAU for the economic and political advantages it presented that same year.

As the disruptions in the ruling body of the UN were more prevalent in Asia, the ruling oligarch class saw this as a significant, if not huge impact to their ultimate plan of a world government. Since the departure of many Asian countries, including China, plans to consolidate governments into one world government was set back years if not decades. The Asian nations had shown the world that there was no need for the UN's many failed programs to fix poverty. They fixed it themselves by aligning themselves into a strong trading alliance with aggressive market driven economies. Countries that had despotic and/or communist rulers were slowly 'pressured' by native Augments to allow the change to happen. Once these rulers were out of power, events transpired to remove them permanently from the world. These countries were becoming self-sufficient and established themselves as equal trading partners with the rest of the world. Native Augments within each country moved internal governments to purse pro-market and strategies to rebuild their economic bases. The net effect of these new economic policies within the EAU increased the quality of life for the citizens of each nation. The oligarchs in charge of the UN, notably their European masters, did not like what they were seeing in Asia. They saw the uncontrolled trade, not heavily regulated and taxed by UN agencies, a threat to their end goals of world domination. Attempting to fix this, proxy agents of the UN launched several covert actions against the EAU to find out the root cause of all these changes without UN oversight.

UN spies soon discovered that the supposedly failed Chrysalis project of the 1970's actually succeeded; it had created genetically advanced or 'augmented' humans. As a result of this project, numerous. 'augmented' humans were embedded in every country around the world. Finding and eliminating these 'Augments' as the UN was now calling them, was their biggest priority. Scientists working for the UN finally found a way to screen for the augmented humans via a simple blood test. These same scientists developed a screening process based on acquired and/or stolen documents from the Chrysalis project. With this new information and technique, the UN and its proxy agents started intensifying their efforts to stop, curtail and even eliminate these augmented humans.

As the next few years progressed, the EAU had become a strong global power in its own right. Economic prosperity had allowed those governments to increase military budgets and modernize both conventional and nuclear arms. Cooperation between the nations of the EAU allowed joint military exercises and the development of EAU military doctrine. Chinese Army and Navy forces trained alongside Indian forces, other armies of the region and vice versa. Even though Khan ruled over many of the former countries of India and Pakistan, now calling it the great Khanate, he ensured his people thrived in their new economy and enjoyed the fruits their labor. He made great efforts to bring his population out of poverty and encourage both individual and economic freedoms never before experienced in Asia. With China now a part of the EAU, Khan and his fellow Augments slowly weakened the communist party from within. Since it was detrimental to the country's economic prosperity, his followers made significant progress in destroying most of its power base and establishing a republican form of government based on law and not political ideology. On a side note, Khan personally abhorred political parties of any kind and where he ruled outlawed them as enemies of the state and they were not allowed by his decree. Political parties in both India and Pakistan were outlawed ever since he took elected office. Freedoms in his mind, were inalienable to everyone and his cause was to ensure mankind was in charge of his own destiny as he was, political parties had in the past destroyed these freedoms.

As the UN intensified its opposition to the EAU, Khan saw and disrupted many covert attacks against his nation. Since the UN did not like the EAU trading with the U.S., it initiated covert attacks using private mercenary groups against sea going trade vessels going to North America. As a result, EAU naval forces stepped up security escorts and even conducted joint operations with the U.S. Pacific naval forces. Despite the heightened security and awareness along the trade routes, attacks still came and eventually, the UN was bold enough to detonate a nuclear device in the city of Singapore killing millions of citizens. Publicly, the UN denounced the tragedy and offered assistance, but the EAU politely declined. With the destruction of Singapore, the covert war between the EAU and UN became overt with the discovery of information supplied by an anonymous western nation indicated the UN was behind the covert attacks from the beginning.

WAR

Since the UN was implicated in the attack on Singapore, it decided to preemptively use armed forces against the EAU. Hoping to topple the new government in China, waves of Russian tanks crossed over the northern border of China from Siberia. Using the Russian Federation military forces as a proxy, the UN invaded with a huge air and land mechanized force hoping to secure large tracts of land against the EAU. Despite some initial setbacks by EAU forces in the initial salvos of the invasion, they were able to stop the Russians dead in their tracks about 150 kilometers inside their border. Unknown to the UN and Russians, U.S. military 'advisors' that included U.S. Air Force bomber support stopped the invasion into Northern China. As U.S. bombers destroyed the lines of supply from Siberia into China, the Russian forces were halted before they could reach dense population centers in Central China.

EAU forces were able to execute counter attacks again with the support of U.S. 'advisors' on the Russian forces and route them out of China. Given their momentum, the EAU Army continued well into Siberia, but not before being stopped at the last minute with tactical nuclear weapons employed by the Russian Federation. Khan was shocked, but not surprised that the UN would use such hideous tactics against his forces. After coming to a point where his forces halted, he decided to use newly acquired Chinese submarines to conduct harassment and interdiction operations on Russian Navy forces as well as trade vessels throughout the northern Pacific. Though, his forces were not as formidable as the Russians, his attacks caused the Russians to think twice about persecuting a long drawn out war in Asia.

During this time, Khan was careful not to attack any NATO countries or NATO forces in any of the respective theaters of war, with a silent agreement in place between him and his unofficial U.S. allies, NATO forces were not to be used by the UN. Since the war was in Asia and not Western Europe, treaty obligations didn't apply in this situation. Even if the UN tried to convince NATO to come to their side, the U. every proposal on the UN Security Council.

With the strategic capture of the Siberian cities, Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, and Khabarovsk, and the capture of a significant portion of the Trans-Siberian railway, the Russians were forced to the negotiation table. In addition to the constant pounding of Russian forces by air assets of both the EAU (with U.S. advisors), Russia was defeated in Siberia. Since the capture of Vladivostok, the EAU gained control of the Russian Pacific fleet headquarters and the largest Russian commercial port in the North Pacific. These events increased the operating range of EAU forces thus reducing UN influence in this region.

In hopes of trying to turn U.S. opinion against the EAU, the UN used proxy agents to detonate suit case-size nuclear devices in three American cities. As the cities of Los Angeles, Houston and Richmond, Virginia were burning by, UN agents planted evidence linking the bombers to the EAU among American news media outlets. Upon finding this, the U.S. questioned the veracity of this news, but asked another big question,'why?' The goal of the UN was to discredit the EAU in the eyes of the American public and damage U.S. and EAU relations as a result of the bombings. As rescue workers worked to help their fellow citizens, the U.S. President, seeing that the American public wanted a response, met with his cabinet along with key leaders of Congress to decide what to do.

Meanwhile in the EAU, Khan received the news about the American attacks and immediately contacted his Augment sources in the U.S. ensuring them that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He even offered humanitarian assistance to the U.S. as a show of good faith to the U.S. Khan personally talked to the U.S. President at the time and gave him his word that the attacks were not executed by any of his nation-states. The U.S. President accepted his explanation at face value and assured Khan that he wouldn't retaliate against the EAU. U.S. found the 'smoking gun' evidence that the terrorist attacks were executed by proxy agents paid for by the UN. Seeing that their relationship with the UN was coming to an end, he was scheduled to speak publicly to Congress on officially withdrawing from the UN. Since the U.S. primarily funds the UN, cessation of all funds would eventually lead to its collapse.

As the U.S. President was heading to Congress to deliver his speech, suicide bombers and snipers attacked the presidential motorcade. Despite admirable resistance provided by the U.S. Secret Service and local police force, they succeeded in killing the president, the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, traveling with him in the same car. Concurrently, at other locations around the U.S. capitol, assassins eliminated the U.S. Speaker of the House, both majority and minority leaders of the Senate. Attempts to assassinate the U.S. Vice President were ineffective, but left the VP in a comatose state as a result of wounds. These attacks virtually decapitated the U.S. leadership, taking the United States out of the war. Unknown at the time, the UN was behind the decapitation effort and was able to maneuver a pro-UN U.S. cabinet member as the new interim-U.S. President. A week later, this newly un-elected U.S. president along with newly appointed Congressional leadership, pulled all official war support from the EAU. Fortunately, two high ranking U.S. Generals, secretly Augments, escaped to the EAU and was able to inform Khan on all this activity and on the dead president's agenda.

In Europe, several pro-EAU European politicians were assassinated by UN agents and similar appointments of pro-UN supporters were installed. Support for the EAU waned in the West and eventually any type of military support, if any, was cut off. European Augments felt the same thing as key European leaders were assassinated by UN operatives. As UN agents captured suspected Augments in Europe, they were executed on the spot as they resisted or sent to black prisons sites around the world never to be seen again.

Khan now saw his support reduced from the Western nations, most of which came from the U.S., realized that a grim future awaited his current war effort against the UN. Although the Russians were combat ineffective in Asia, they chose not to pursue any more combat and negotiated a limited cease-fire under UN auspices. Due to the EAU occupation in Siberia, a power vacuum existed with no Russian leadership in the region. Since the Russians were not able to project enough military presence to support the Siberian region anymore, local Siberians declared independence from the Russian Federation as a newly formed country: The Republic of Siberia. With the new capitol established in Vladivostok, the Siberian Republic looked to the EAU for support and recognition. Khan immediately recognized the new nation and offered provisional membership in the EAU to the new republic.

Needless to say, the UN wasn't pleased with this development as a newly formed nation arose as a result of the war. Regardless, the UN stepped up its overt and covert war effort against Khan and his EAU. Since the Russians were not combat-effective anymore, another way to get to Khan was devised. Operatives belonging to several European countries were able to infiltrate Russian and European military bases and launch several nuclear missiles against Khan's nations. Additionally, some remaining Russian naval forces, especially submarines were able to execute missile launches from outside of EAU territory. These devastating attacks destroyed most of the military infrastructure and some of his cities forced Khan out of power.

Coupled with a massive propaganda effort spearheaded by the UN, the public disclosure of the Augments and the atrocities created by them was put out via the world media puppets. Such things as the war in Siberia and the attacks on the U.S. Cities were examples of their evil deeds and how they sought control over normal humans. Since these secretive oligarchs controlled the major media outlets, such as CNN, the Russian News, and the BBC, the Augments were played as the evil monsters of the world that bring war, fear and death to normal humans. Due to the fact that Augments could look like everyday humans, the UN provided free to any nation, their Augment blood test. The Augments soon found themselves surrounded by hostile humans as nations rose up against them. All across Asia, nations wrestled control of their governments back from the Augments and broke away from the EAU. As a gesture of good faith and no hard feelings, the UN was there to assist in the humanitarian efforts reestablishing their presence in these countries.

The ESCAPE:

As the normal humans of India were closing in on his government headquarters, his staff was performing emergency destruction procedures in anticipation of capture or death. As the Indian armed forces was closing in, several black commandos entered Khan's military bunker, but these weren't Indian, they were American. In fact, a Delta team showed up to rescue Khan and his followers. As they left the bunker, demolitions were set to destroy the place and all data within it. Khan and his group were covertly taken to the U.S.

Upon reaching the U.S., Khan and his group were saved by members of the U.S. Armed Forces that were still loyal to the two American Augmented Generals, Lt. General William Taylor and Brig. General Stanley Roberts. Both Taylor and Roberts new if they were found out, then they'd be either executed or sent to a black site prison for the rest of their lives. The final destination was somewhere in the Nevada desert, where the U.S. Conducted advanced aircraft testing, Area 51. Here, since Taylor and Roberts had access to this location, was the perfect place to sequester Khan for the time being.

As the war was winding down due to the cease fires in Asia and recovery efforts launched by the 'benevolent' UN, Augments around the world were converging on this location with the assistance of various U.S. special operations forces. Ironically, due to the influence of the Augment generals, various way to enhance U.S. military forces were tested and conducted for certain special operations forces. In reality, a few of the Delta operators were Augments.

Since the propaganda put out by the UN concerning the 'evil' Augments had taken hold among all the national governments, there were no safe spots on Earth anymore. Even though Generals Taylor and Roberts had safeguarded Khan in Nevada, they only had a limited time until their own U.S. government would turn them over to the UN. Taylor, in consultation with Khan, suggested that he and his followers escape Earth on an experimental space ship housed there at Area 51.

Khan agreed.

- End Testimony -

Author's Note: It's over, yeah, it was a long chapter